Reviews tagging 'Rape'

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch

13 reviews

emily_britton's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.75

 Heartbreaking and infuriating. What a terrible period of history and horrifying to read about -- but important as well. Had Gourevitch's writing been anything less than what it was, this would have been unbearable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Rape, Violence, and War

ashely_56's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is an incredible emotionally difficult but necessary read. Especiall in a time period where there are eerie genocida parallel currently happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza.

This books really explores and explains the history of the Rwandan Genocide and the events and circumstances that lead up to it so we as reader can under that this was systematic elimination of an entire group of people not mass tribal hysteria.

This was done deliberately and tactically. 

We need to learn this so we can take not of how those same tactics are being used yet while the western world yet again turns a blind eye.

This writing does an incredible job of encapsulation the world that is left after the Genocide and the state of its survivors. He does shy away from the messiness, the horror, or the cruelty.

This book is a necessary read for all those who care about stopping Genocide.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Torture, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Car accident

phoenixcrying's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Violence, and War

freesiaelect's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

two_octopuses's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

3.75

Really devestating stories about of the Rwandan genocide, and the consequences of Western country/NGO influence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, and Blood

zephyrscape's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide

hughesie's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

eggshells29's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

piabo's review against another edition

4.0

After living in Rwanda for more than a year (over the span of 4 years), visiting the genocide memorial in Kigali, attending Kwibuka, listening to a genocide podcast, and reading two books about the genocide, I thought there is not much more I can learn. Especially not from a book written by some white dude from the US.
But I was wrong.

This book is actually great. It does not only talk about the genocide itself but situates in well into its context of its time. Not just before, but also in the years after 1994.

I think the author did a good job. Really.

What I found especially interesting was the attempt to humanize the events during and around the genocide. The killings were not an abstract thing, they really happened. And the people of Rwanda are real people. Just like you and me. It is very important to never forget that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, and War

Minor: Colonisation

valeria_gzz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

I give this book 3,5 stars not because I didn’t like it or because it was too sad to be enjoyable but because it is outdated. Reading this was hard because I had to constantly remind myself that these were real people most of who are still alive today and still remember seeing their families being murdered by friends and neighbors. Reading about all the guilty people denying anything happened was depressing as well. Overall I am glad I read it though because I only knew that the genocide happened, not how, why, or what happened afterwards.Also I want to add that this book made me very angry at times, because of how everyone that could help ignored this, and the way Rwandans who could help others chose not to or chose to kill.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Genocide, Hate crime, Rape, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, and War